Sending a folder won't work with nautilus-sendto and a snapped mail client

[Nathan Teodosio]

[Impact]

Alongside nautilus, nautilus-sendto is installed by default in Noble. It is used when sending files via Nautilus' 'Email' context menu option for a selection.

In contrast to a selection without folders, whereby Nautilus just passes their paths to the mailer for attaching, when the selection to be mailed contains a folder, Nautilus puts all the selected files in a zip under the /tmp directory and then passes that as an attachment.

Snaps, however, do no have access to /tmp, which causes no file to be attached[1].

The proposal therefore removes the 'Email' option when a folder is in the selection

[Test plan]

--> Main routine <--
1. Ensure that nautilus-sendto is installed.
2. Install a snapped email client, say, Thunderbird, and set it as the default mail client.
3. Open Nautilus.
4. Select at least one folder.
5. Right click on the selection.
* Expected: No 'Email' option must be available in the context menu.

Run the main routine above but alter 4 to have no folder in the selection, just regular files.
* Expected: 'Email' option must be available in the context menu.

Run the main routine above but alter 2 to use an unsnapped email client (e.g. claws-mail) as default.
* Expected: 'Email' option must be available in the context menu.

[Regression potential]

Regressions would manifest in Nautilus' email integration, of which only the context menu 'Email' described above is known to the author.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1996927/comments/19

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Oracular: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/nautilus/-/merge_requests/23
Noble: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/nautilus/-/merge_requests/22

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:47~beta.1-1ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:47~beta.1-1ubuntu1) oracular; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bícha ]
  * Merge with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Add Build-Depends: libunity-dev
      + Add Recommends: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome:
        Required for "Set as Background" feature
      + Suggest instead of Recommend gnome-sushi
    - debian/changelog, debian/rules: set epoch number (which was added by
      error)
    - debian/source_nautilus.py:
      + Apport hook to list versions of files in /usr/lib/nautilus and
        reassign the crashes when they are not due to nautilus code directly
    - debian/rules:
      + Build Unity support
    - Add appstream-compulsory.patch:
      - Mark Nautilus as required for GNOME (affects the GNOME Software app)
    - 04_suppress_umount_in_ltsp.patch:
      + Don't list unmount and eject actions on LTSP clients
    - nautilus-sendto.patch:
      + Restore nautilus-sendto integration for better Thunderbird integration
    - ubuntu_backspace_behaviour.patch:
      + restore backspace behaviour to go back
    - unity_launcher_support.patch:
      + unity launcher integration (list bookmarks in the context menu,
        display a bar on the icon during copies)
    - unity_icon_color.patch:
      + specify a background color for the unity launcher icon
  * Refresh patches

  [ Nathan Pratta Teodosio ]
  * d/p/u/nautilus-sendto.patch extended:
   If {nautilus_sendto installed && mailer is a snap && folder in selection},
   do not present 'Email' option, as Nautilus then compresses the selected
   files to a zip, which it creates in /tmp, to which a snap doesn't have
   access (LP: #2072569).

nautilus (47~beta.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Support being used as xdg-desktop-portal-gnome filechooser
      (LP: #1175608, LP: #2023044)
  * Bump minimum GTK4, libadwaita & libportal
  * Remove reproducibility patch: applied in new release
  * Add revert patches to avoid switch from tracker to localsearch for now

nautilus (46.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump minimum GTK4 to 4.13.6
  * Remove patches that reverted changes that required GTK4 4.13.6
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.0

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:30:32 -0400